{"id":6925,"date":"2018-04-21T11:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T18:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beauty2makeup.com\/blog\/?p=6925"},"modified":"2018-11-14T01:32:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T09:32:07","slug":"earth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beauty2makeup.com\/blog\/earth-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Earth Day 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"top-full-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6926 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beauty2makeup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Earth-Day.jpg\" alt=\"Earth Day 2016\" width=\"443\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beauty2makeup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Earth-Day.jpg 443w, https:\/\/www.beauty2makeup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Earth-Day-300x249.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><\/div>\n<h2><strong>In honor of Earth Day&#8230;<\/strong><strong>I&#8217;ve Gone GREEN!<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Hello Beauties!\u00a0 Happy Earth Day!<\/p>\n<p>Every little bit we can do to preserve our Earth&#8217;s resources helps.\u00a0\u00a0 <em>Everything counts!<\/em>\u00a0 A couple ways I&#8217;ve made an effort is by replacing plastic water bottles with reusable ones and by going paperless.\u00a0 I no longer have my bank &amp; bill statement mailed to me, I have them &#8220;emailed&#8221; to me.\u00a0 But I haven&#8217;t stopped there, my Avon business is also paperless!<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2011 \u00a0I\u00a0 decided to make the switch from being a traditional Avon Representative to becoming exclusively an <a title=\"Dianne Hernandez Avon e-Representative\" href=\"http:\/\/www.YourAvon.com\/DianneHernandez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Avon e-Representative<\/a>. Doing so cut my paper usage by almost 90%!\u00a0 Rather than traditionally\u00a0 distributing Avon&#8217;s paper catalog to all my customers I encourage them to view the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.avon.com\/brochure?c=repPWP&amp;repid=09720303\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Avon eBrochure<\/a>\u00a0 over at my Avon Rep website.\u00a0 Now this may not seem like such a big deal but if you really think about it, by cutting down on my paper use, over the years I may have saved a tree or two.\u00a0 Now just imagine if everyone went paperless! We could save a whole forest!<\/p>\n<h3><em>When it comes to Earth Day<br \/>\nYOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE! No matter how small!<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>The Avon Corporation is also committed to managing their environmental footprint by &#8220;<strong>Going Green<\/strong>&#8221; in their daily operations.\u00a0 Avon&#8217;s distribution center in\u00a0Zanesville, Ohio,\u00a0was their first facility to achieve <a href=\"http:\/\/leed.usgbc.org\/leed.html?gclid=CjwKEAjwjd2pBRDB4o_ymcieoAQSJABm4egox5krF8eQeuQUDWJ7w3S9pMISPSn4iHhVS342rhZmTBoCqCDw_wcB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LEED Gold certification\u00a0<\/a> and followed by 4 other Avon facilities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Avon&#8217;s largest distribution center worldwide in Sao Paulo, Brazil, received LEED Gold certification<\/li>\n<li>Avon&#8217;s distribution center in Guarne, Colombia, was the first new construction in Colombia to receive LEED Gold certification<\/li>\n<li>Avon&#8217;s research &amp; development center in Shanghai, China, received LEED Platinum certification for its interior space<\/li>\n<li>and Avon&#8217;s U.S. headquarters in New York, N.Y., was awarded LEED Gold certification for its interior space<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Avon also uses 100% recycled paper for the\u00a0 Catalogs and made this statment over at their Corporate website:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;As\u00a0a direct seller whose &#8216;store&#8217; is the brochure and printed materials, with virtually no brick and mortar stores, Avon is a significant user of paper. The issue of deforestation is especially important to Avon given our reliance on paper. We are committed to helping end deforestation through our internal efforts and policies, including the <a title=\"Avon Paper Promise\" href=\"http:\/\/www.avoncompany.com\/corporate-responsibility\/environmental-sustainability\/reforestation#paper-promise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Avon Paper Promise<\/strong><\/a> and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avoncompany.com\/corporate-responsibility\/environmental-sustainability\/reforestation#palm-oil-promise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Avon Palm Oil Promise<\/a><\/strong> and our reforestation fundraising initiative, <strong>Healthy Forests, Beautiful World<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>~ Avon Corportion<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a great knowing that the company I represent shares the same concern for our environment as I do and together we can continue to keep our earth beautiful today and in the future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can read more about <\/strong><a title=\"Avon Positoin on Environmental Impact\" href=\"http:\/\/www.avoncompany.com\/corporate-responsibility\/environmental-sustainability\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Avon&#8217;s Environmental Commitment here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of Earth Day&#8230;I&#8217;ve Gone GREEN! 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Every little bit we can do to preserve our Earth&#8217;s resources helps.\u00a0\u00a0 Everything counts!\u00a0 A couple ways I&#8217;ve made an effort is by replacing plastic water bottles with reusable ones and by going paperless.\u00a0 I no longer have my bank &amp; bill statement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","tve_updated_post":"","tve_custom_css":"","tve_user_custom_css":"","tve_globals":{},"tcb2_ready":0,"tcb_editor_enabled":0,"tve_landing_page":"","_tve_header":"","_tve_footer":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-6925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avon-representative","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beauty2makeup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beauty2makeup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beauty2makeup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beauty2makeup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beauty2makeup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6925"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.beauty2makeup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14719,"href":"https:\/\/www.beauty2makeup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6925\/revisions\/14719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beauty2makeup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beauty2makeup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beauty2makeup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beauty2makeup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6925"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beauty2makeup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=6925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}